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Frank Sinatra’s song about Chicago, “My Kind of Town,” “a the town that won’t let you down,” seems dated in light of last weekend’s shooting spree that left 16 dead and dozens wounded in 53 separate incidents. According to the Chicago Tribune, “The victims were among 82 people shot between …

On April 15, 1989, students began to gather in Tiananmen Square, the spiritual heart of China, to mourn Hu Yaobang, a reformist official who had died that day. What began as a remembrance in Beijing became a national movement challenging Communist Party rule. Over the next few weeks, more than …

The commerce department reported Wednesday that the economy contracted by nearly 3 percent from January through March. This dismal shrinkage in output has many Americans worrying about a dreaded double dip recession. On the jobs front, it feels to many Americans that the recession never ended. One of the misleading …

Former hoops star Dennis Rodman is on a diplomatic mission to North Korea and Watergate legend Bob Woodward is being defended by Republicans for his reporting. Maybe the Mayans were right after all. The stranger of the two is Woodward’s new-found star status with the right and his persona non …

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:47:47 +0000 – By Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarlandNational Security Expert President Obama’s new policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan– or “Af/Pak” as it’s now known — is bound to drive the anti-war left and neo-con right wingers crazy … Because it both broadens and narrows the war. …

Knees jerk at the broadcast networks every time President Donald Trump makes a dramatic move. They’re going to denounce his verbiage as too reckless. They’re going to suggest he’s mangling all the facts. They’ll suggest his motives are racist and extremist. We heard all this on ABC, CBS and NBC …

The arrest of Arid Uka, an immigrant from Kosovo, for the shooting of two U.S. servicemen reminds of us of a few more truths about the dangerous world we live in. Chief among these: We really are in a “global war,” whatever the White House says. Al Qaeda has sought …

Sixty days ago President Obama submitted a fiscal year 2012 budget to Congress. Today, candidate Barack Obama gave a nice talk about “hope and change” commenting on the passing scene in Washington and bemoaning the overspending and debt and runaway spending that have somehow gotten much worse over the past …

Ten years ago, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, Americans felt vulnerable. Our fear was magnified by the 24 hour cable news media and our tendency to attach ourselves voyeuristically to the news. Fear is a very powerful emotion, and it led us to personalize the risk, …

In contrast to the immense transformation the Middle East is undergoing, President Obama’s speech Thursday offered only minor modifications to decades-old “solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These ‘solutions’ have been negotiated and repackaged numerous times under even more popular and willful Palestinian and Israeli leaderships. Yet, much-desired peace remains elusive. …